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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring a tinted scene from the movie, with leads Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson), Fred M... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Lewis Rachmil, the producer of the television show Men Into Space. He is wearing a suit and is leaning on his knee and holding a ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Mary Pickford getting tobacco and cigarettes for the soldiers. In addition to supplying her own adopted contingents, Miss Pickford has s... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Sonia Sokoloff (played by Clara Kimball Young in a flowing white gown) shrinks back in alarm as Fedia (John St. Polis) receives a terrific right punch to t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Pauline Frederick as Myra, wearing a kimono, reacts to the signs of her dissipation scattered on a table: playing cards, cigarettes, whiskey, the remains o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The silent film actors Viola Dana and Bert Lytell, wearing costumes for different productions, knock their coffee cups together in a toast that is apparent... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Mae Gaston gives a baby doll to a poor flower girl as an older and more prosperous girl looks on in a scene still from the 1915 Reliance film "The ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Actress Jennie Lee bends over a small flower girl who wears a kerchief on her head. They stand on the front porch of an impoverished house in this scene st... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Louisiana doctor Dudley Duprez, played by Frank Keenan, makes a fist and glares angrily in a scene still for "The Bride of Hate," a drama of miscegenation ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for episode seven ("A Name for a Baby") of the silent serial "Beatrice Fairfax," Beatrice Fairfax (played by Grace Darling) bursts in u... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In the title role for the silent drama "The Beggar of Cawnpore," the actor H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In a scene still for the silent drama "The Beggar of Crawnpore," H. B. Warner poses in character as Dr. Robert Lowndes, a British army doctor in India redu... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Jack Bronson (played by Raymond Bloomer) has been beaten senseless in an underworld bar. Violet Gray (played by Marion Davies dressed in a Salvation Army u... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd... |
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| Description: | Leo Gordon, Neville Brand and Joel Fluellen stand in front of Robert Osterloh, sitting, who is holding a pencil in one hand and a cigarette in the other. A... |
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| Description: | Neville Brand leans against a wall outside of a prison cell and smiles. He is pulling out a cigarette from a cigarette pack he holds in his hands. There is... |
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| Description: | Contact print of actor Neville Brand smoking a cigarette. He is outside on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11" in front of the corner of a stone wa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of several people, including three couples, about to walk through a door. On the other side of the door are drinks... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits. |
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